Are you a knowledge broker?
Twitter and blogs were in a bit of a kafuffle when psychology professor Larry Rosen suggested in this month’s Educational Leadership that teachers reach out to knowledge brokers who could promote and support teachers in good technology use … and then defined those knowledge brokers as students or community members.
Thankfully for everyone’s blood pressure, he has since written a two-page blog post for Psychology Today in which he acknowledges that school librarians and ed tech coordinators might just be folks who are already knowledge brokers.
It’s worth reading Rosen’s post to see how he defines a knowledge broker. Are you this person? Are you striving to be? What new ideas can you get about how to grow more deeply into your role when the words “library” and “librarian” are not present in the job description?
Does your building want and/or need a knowledge broker? Do you want to fill that role?
Food for thought, huh?
Check out Alice Yucht’s take on the same issue.
February 24th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
OMG!! I was one who read his EL article last week and was fuming! I’m so glad you’ve written about this and linked us to his mea culpa. I’ve often called myself an information broker but now I’m a full on knowledge broker - YESIREE! I’m happy to self-assess that I meet all 5 of Dr. Plair’s criteria. MSU - Advancing Knowledge.
February 24th, 2011 at 11:15 pm
Yay!
February 25th, 2011 at 12:26 am
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